More Pablo: culture

2023-01-18 — 🦊 Tunic ⚔️. (🕑 9 min) I played Tunic this long weekend, loved it, had a lot of reactions.
2022-11-07 — 📗 That Consumption Life: Teixcalaan, This Is Us, Never Have I Ever, Breath Becomes Air 🧬. (🕑 6 min) I read a bunch of books and watched TV in the last few months.
2022-07-27 — 🎙 Vocalization gimmick songs 🗣. (🕑 9 min) Songs I like with challenging vocal performances.
2022-07-20 — 🎭 Why Theatre, Pablo? 🗣. (🕑 9 min) Getting in my head about getting in my head, and how theatre helped with that.
2022-04-21 — 🤓 "Boring" is just one strategy 🥱. (🕑 3 min) There are tradeoffs to the conventional approach, too.
2022-04-17 — 🧐 Aesthetic Editorial 🎨. (🕑 2 min) Quick read on aesthetic, connecting fonts, web design, and instruments.
2022-04-03 — ⌨️ Pi Projects 🥧. (🕑 9 min) How I'm using Raspberry Pis in my new apartment.
2020-06-27 — 🎭 Discrimination, Python pattern matching 🐍. (🕑 7 min) Some favorite essays, some ethics aren't that hard, and Python pattern matching.
2020-06-18 — 📏 Getting what you measure ⏱. (🕑 4 min) Trying to roll the blogging boulder again, with a link and a cute video or two.
2020-06-04 — 🐷 The police cannot be saved 🧱. (🕑 5 min) I'm mad as hell, of course.
2020-05-29 — 😡 Nemesis, Sudoku, Muscles 💪. (🕑 4 min) I got mad, I got happy over Sudoku, I'm getting sore.
2020-05-21 — 🎵 K-Pop, Fred Willard, Dual Monitors 🖥. (🕑 3 min) K-Pop again, Fred Willard, more of my setup.
2020-05-17 — 👁 Graphics, Intutiveness, Languages, Risotto 🍚. (🕑 6 min) Blatherings from looking over my tabs last night drunkenly at 2:00AM
2020-05-14 — 🕺 Dance videos, paths not taken 💃. (🕑 6 min) I talk about where I almost made different life choices, and link a ton of memorable dance sequences.
2020-05-10 — ❓ 20 Questions 💡. (🕑 8 min) I take the prompt of an article I read and answer 20 questions about how I'm doing.
2020-05-04 — 🧠 Knowing things, 1984 music 🎵. (🕑 3 min) "knows things" produces lots of weird awful systems. A cool music video.
2020-04-29 — 🐷 Animal Crossing, large companies, baking 📊. (🕑 4 min) Karen and I have villagers we hate, large companies are different, I baked some.
2020-04-28 — 🤓 Baited into PL talk again 🗣. (🕑 4 min) Languages, tools, ecosystems again. Hitting the same drums I always do.
2020-04-26 — 📊 Squads, pods, and the Spotify model 🗣. (🕑 6 min) We used something like the Spotify model at CP, had some experiences that match (and others that don't) the issues brought up in the viral blog post.
2020-04-17 — 🗣 Facebook ads, video 🤖. (🕑 3 min) Facebook ads are complex beasts. A video.
2020-04-15 — 💻 Command line, AOC 🇺🇸. (🕑 4 min) Waxing/waning on CLI after a successful sed command. AOC.
2020-04-12 — 🎮 Social, streams, moar Fire Emblem 📱. (🕑 6 min) Come to my Zoom calls, watch me code maybe, and nerding out over Fire Emblem.
2020-04-09 — 🍴 Elm, forks, Tiger King 🐅. (🕑 5 min) A post on Elm got me thinking about a few things. Karen and I watched Tiger King.
2020-04-04 — ✍️ Media death ☠️. (🕑 3 min) The Outline closed. This sucks. I want interesting outlets to stop dying.
2020-03-31 — 🔧 Online tool lists 📄. (🕑 2 min) I saw a huge, comprehensive list of online tools, here are a few others.
2020-03-31 — 🎤 Boy bands, pop culture, guys talking into a camera 👦. (🕑 4 min) Boy bands, pop culture, guys who went to Brown, a diary entry from when I was 12.
2020-03-29 — 🐫 Today's updates ⌨️. (🕑 4 min) SARS-CoV-2 videos, my setup, OCaml bullshit.
2020-03-27 — ☀️ Today's updates 👨‍💼. (🕑 3 min) Yes, I'm worried. A cute 1m clip. A good metaphor.
2020-03-27 — 📬 Newsletters, mailing lists 🧾. (🕑 4 min) Newsletters, the coolest thing I don't have!
2020-03-24 — 🤓 Documentation 📕. (🕑 3 min) Thinkin' about docs.
2020-03-22 — 💌 Ballad, Amado, Simplicity 🗣. (🕑 2 min) A latin ballad, my extremely profitable product, words.
2020-03-21 — 💸 Money, Sunglasses, Cooking 🕶. (🕑 5 min) Rant about bailouts again, a few of music videos, things I cooked.
2020-03-20 — ⚔️ Adventures, Animal Crossing 🏡. (🕑 3 min) Read an article on "Adventure games," reflect on why they never stuck with me.
2020-03-19 — 🕹 Game Hacks, Browsers, Games, Goats 🐐. (🕑 4 min) Today's rambles are on hacking in old games, free software, Slack fun, and board games.
2020-03-18 — 🍳 Family, cooking, organizing ✊. (🕑 3 min) Today's things I read + reacted to: organizing vs. mobilizing, how long we'll be doing this, and bailouts.
2020-03-16 — 📉 Markets, npm, Grumpy, Bankruptcy 👴. (🕑 5 min) 3-16 thoughts: bad markets, GitHub + npm, grumpy about products, bankruptcy
2019-12-16 — 🎭 Barry 📜. (🕑 5 min) I really enjoyed Barry, some context as to why.
2019-11-26 — 🗣 Recent Sound Adventures 🔊. (🕑 5 min) I made sounds!! For installations, mostly. It was fun doing this again.
2019-10-10 — Mark Mode tutorial. (🕑 3 min) A tutorial on how to Mark Mode your site.
2019-10-09 — Introducing Mark Mode ✅. (🕑 2 min) Getting ahead of the new trends!
2019-09-30 — 🙏 Blasphemous 👻. (🕑 6 min) I played Blasphemous, its… a lot!
2019-09-21 — ⛰ Celeste 7b Golden 🍓. (🕑 1 min) I got the 200th strawberry.
2019-09-14 — 🌴🧺 Some DLC reviews 🐡💣. (🕑 5 min) Two of the games I've played/written about have new DLC
2019-09-04 — 🏄‍♀️ How I Surf the World Wide Web 🕷. (🕑 4 min) I'm your friend wearing a tinfoil hat re: web browsing.
2019-08-28 — 🎮 That Consumption Life: August 2019 📖. (🕑 7 min) Paragraph or two for a few things I've consumed recently.
2019-08-24 — 🐸 Fleaswallow 2, and an OCaml setup 🐫. (🕑 17 min) I decided to step up my OCaml game, here are lessons I learned; this post is a monstrosity.
2019-07-29 — ⛰ Celeste 8b Golden 🍓. (🕑 1 min) I recorded myself beat a hard level of Celeste with no deaths. A different one this time!
2019-06-26 — 😈 Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night 🌕. (🕑 6 min) Longer-form writeup of reactions to Bloodstained: RotN
2019-06-18 — ⛰ Celeste 6b Golden 🍓. (🕑 1 min) I recorded myself beat a hard level of Celeste with no deaths.
2019-06-11 — 🤔 Introspective questions 🤜🤛. (🕑 6 min) I answer some questions about myself from a "kill small-talk" blog post.
2019-06-05 — 🌎 The Light Brigade 👩‍🚀👨‍🚀. (🕑 3 min) I read (and enjoyed) The Light Brigade, by Kameron Hurley
2019-05-31 — 🐠 Introducing Cichlidia 🐟. (🕑 2 min) Karen and I bought a house, want to build a space for good people 😄
2019-05-16 — 💻 Back on my bullshit: Self-hosted Adventures ✉️. (🕑 12 min) Overthinking self-hosted services.
2019-05-10 — 💻 That Consumption life: The Big Nine 9️⃣. (🕑 14 min) I read The Big Nine, liked it fine, but with many qualms.
2019-04-26 — 🤖 Machine Learning: Programming's Asbestos 🧠. (🕑 7 min) Recent Machine Learning advances are cool but IMO pretty overhyped.
2019-04-09 — 🌓 The City In The Middle Of The Night 🐊. (🕑 5 min) I talk about a book I read (The City In The Middle Of The Night, by Charlie Jane Anders).
2019-01-18 — Recent Metroidvanias 🐛. (🕑 5 min) I played 3 video games this past month. Games are fun!
2019-01-16 — Fast food, fascism, banality 🍔. (🕑 4 min) Fascists are the worst, and they can't even be interesting about what they eat.
2019-01-12 — Mario, made better 🍄. (🕑 4 min) Examples of the Mario universe, remixed and interpreted.
2018-12-08 — Tumblr banning porn 🤦‍♂️. (🕑 6 min) Tumblr is banning porn; I think this is Bad, and part of a few Bad trends.
2018-11-17 — Bye, Facebook. You're terrible.. (🕑 5 min) I'm deactivating Facebook, it's Bad.
2018-11-11 — That Consumption Life: Jane, Inkeeper, Gentleman, ROUS. (🕑 6 min) Some things I've watched/read that I loved
2018-10-18 — Favorite Sketches. (🕑 2 min) Some videos I've been watching for years and years.
2018-06-28 — Movie roundup 🎬. (🕑 4 min) I've watched a lot of movies this summer.
2018-05-10 — Alice Goldfuss: Foot Candles in tech 📹. (🕑 1 min) A favorite thing on tech culture I've read.
2018-05-01 — That consumption life: Enneagrams, Jessica Jones, more Celeste. (🕑 3 min) Recent things I've consumed.
2018-04-19 — Hugh Jass Message 🗣. (🕑 3 min) A small project to troll your friends.
2018-04-17 — Stories, making things, education, hopes 💻. (🕑 4 min) Thoughts and reactions to a great story on One Laptop Per Child.
2018-04-12 — Product, metrics, and who to serve 📊. (🕑 6 min) Feeling like smart things are happening doesn't mean they're happening
2018-03-29 — Overthinking a Tomb Raider. (🕑 4 min) I saw Tomb Raider, played Tomb Raider
2018-03-23 — Celeste playthrough. (🕑 1 min) Video when I played through a game I love
2018-03-20 — That consumption life: Broken Earth, Celeste, Avatar. (🕑 3 min) Here are three things I loved and recommend immediately.
2018-03-18 — My setup. (🕑 6 min) What my computer usually looks like, workspace tools.
2018-03-13 — Another week. (🕑 4 min) Articles I liked this week.
2018-03-12 — NYer article on communities, social media. (🕑 3 min) Don't say "there are no good solutions," there are.
2018-03-09 — Engineer Showboating. (🕑 8 min) How to fake it (in 2010, anyways)
2018-03-05 — This week. (🕑 2 min) Things I liked this week
2018-02-25 — This week. (🕑 3 min) Reading I enjoyed this week
2018-02-20 — Trying OCaml 🐫. (🕑 4 min) I announce a static site generator I wrote and describe first OCaml impressions. 🐫
2018-02-19 — Millenials, Attention Spans, Discourse, Creepers. (🕑 6 min) <div class="caption-img-block" style="margin: 25px auto;">
2018-02-12 — Fun rituals for the Coder at Work 🖥. (🕑 5 min) <small>_🎵 The song for this post is [Motownphilly][12], by Boyz II Men._</small>
2018-02-08 — 🗣 Meetings, Part 2: Behind the symptom. (🕑 6 min) <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
2018-02-01 — 🗣 Meetings, Part 1: Leaders and Org Worms. (🕑 6 min) _🎵 The song for this post is [Survivor][9], by Destiny's Child 🎵._
2018-01-29 — Blogs, and many of my favorites. (🕑 6 min) <div class="caption-img-block" style="margin: 25px auto">
2018-01-28 — Pablo seeking a date in 2016. (🕑 6 min) <div class="caption-img-block" style="margin: 25px auto">
2018-01-18 — That consumption life: Culture Lectures. (🕑 5 min) <div class="caption-img-block" style="margin: 25px auto">
2018-01-16 — Paper worlds, the heroes who inhabit them. (🕑 3 min) <div class="caption-img-block" style="margin: 25px auto">
2018-01-15 — n > 1. (🕑 3 min) <small><em>🎵 The song for this post is [Psycho Killer][10], by The Talking
2018-01-10 — ⛓ＢＬＯＣＫＣＨＡＩＮ⛓. (🕑 4 min) <div class="caption-img-block" style="margin: 25px auto">
2018-01-07 — Feeling good when you're feeling bad. (🕑 4 min) <div class="caption-img-block" style="margin: 25px auto">
2018-01-05 — Shoutout to Steve Ballmer. (🕑 2 min) <iframe width="560" height="315"
2018-01-02 — Towards a More Open Web. (🕑 4 min) <div class="caption-img-block" style="margin: 25px auto">
2017-12-29 — Animal Crossing: New Leaf. (🕑 5 min) I used to blog about [fun things I loved][4], so here's one I've been enjoying
2017-12-20 — Two anecdotes about culture. (🕑 3 min) Here are two little anecdotes about companies and culture, apropos of nothing.
2017-06-17 — Dip your toes into some MUSIC (part 1: Chip, Dub, #Deep, Mashup). (🕑 8 min) One of the most fun parts of dating someone can be learning about the art that
2013-12-24 — The Magic and Tension of The Room. (🕑 5 min) [_The Room_][1] is one of the most entertaining and engrossing movies I've seen
2013-12-17 — Philly Murals. (🕑 1 min) I've been living in Philadelphia now for about a month, and I'm very impressed
2013-12-04 — Joss Whedon, the word Feminist. (🕑 10 min) \[Disclaimer: I benefit from virtually every type of privilege society grants:
2013-11-12 — Adventures in Programming Language Bikeshedding. (🕑 3 min) ["Greg"][2] opens a great little [bikeshedder][5] on rust-dev, proving that you can
2013-11-11 — Blogging Solutions. (🕑 6 min) A friend recently asked for some advice regarding blogging solutions, and I
2013-11-05 — The Smash Brothers. (🕑 1 min) While [I play a ton of StarCraft][1], one of the games closest to my heart is
2013-11-04 — Quick write-up of some books. (🕑 7 min) I've driven a lot these last few months: first from San Francisco to Austin,
2013-10-26 — opinions, criticisms, art consumption. (🕑 7 min) Tevis Thompson wrote [a great little article making the rounds][1] that reminds
2013-10-22 — Two works by Peter Bussigel. (🕑 1 min) In college, as part of [my music degree,][2] I got to see some works by
2013-10-18 — On Depression (mine). (🕑 9 min) <a href="http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=12052006"><img src="/img/2013/10/beef_toast_cropped.gif" alt="Roast Beef, trouble with toast" style="float:right; margin: 15px 0 15px 15px" /></a>
2013-09-30 — Breaking Bad. (🕑 6 min) <img src="/img/2013/09/bb-comics-1.jpg" style="float: right; width: 400px; margin-left: 30px;" alt="Breaking Bad comics" />
2013-09-30 — Excellent read on Gone Home. (🕑 2 min) [Ian Bogost][1] just published [my favorite piece written about Gone Home][2]
2013-09-19 — Death to Simple Narratives. (🕑 3 min) I've never been partial to mantras or aphorisms, but one has stuck with me for
2013-09-17 — BioShock: Infinite. (🕑 5 min) When I upgraded my video card, a [BioShock: Infinite][1] key came with the
2012-12-18 — Stream Ads. (🕑 11 min) <em><small>Originally written on December 18, Newtown hit me very hard, then I
2012-12-14 — Shootings. (🕑 5 min) <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
2012-01-18 — Smoke Weed Every Day. (🕑 1 min) In the tradition of educating the masses on memes and Internet trends,
2012-01-17 — Testing, and the lost art of the manual. (🕑 8 min) Note: I edited a bunch of this language to be a bit more, uh, fair. Looking
2011-04-01 — Homebrew comfort music. (🕑 1 min) Often when coding and confronted by a problem you don't know how to solve, it's
2011-03-14 — "First, try to be something, anything, else.". (🕑 3 min) Here's an old, but [good article, ostensibly about writing][1]. The author is
2011-03-07 — No Time Like the Present. (🕑 1 min) After playing [Skies of Arcadia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skies_of_Arcadia)
2011-03-03 — An Anecdote on Observational Indistinguishibility. (🕑 1 min) I once saw Tony Kushner speak (playwright, author of [Angels in America][1] and
2010-12-13 — How to tell someone their code sucks. (🕑 1 min) Some days I just wish I were
2010-12-07 — STOP IT WITH YOUR STATE. (🕑 4 min) Alright forks, time for some smugness. I know, on this blog?!? But bear with me.
2010-11-18 — Every morning of my undergrad. (🕑 1 min) I had a Serious post all lined up, made of words and things, but found an old video
2010-08-14 — Making a living being an artist. (🕑 5 min) This blog seems to have veered from [code][1] and [cute whimsy][2] to
2010-04-07 — Being lucky, being strange. Being lucky to be strange.. (🕑 1 min) The Olympics brought more opportunities for people to be hatin' on Johnny Weir
2010-03-23 — Books, Books, the Musical Fruit. (🕑 5 min) A lot of big-time, [real][1] [bloggers][2] [are][3] [writing][4] [about][5]
2010-03-21 — On Jazz, popularity. (🕑 6 min) Another not-very-hackery article on Hacker News caught my attention.
2010-03-07 — TeX, Culture.. (🕑 3 min) On the old (lost) blog I had a long post as to why I used LaTeX instead of Word,
2010-03-01 — YEEEAAAAAAH. (🕑 1 min) I love memes, but haven't produced any of my own. In light of this awful, awful
2010-02-18 — A short history of my belief. (🕑 2 min) One of the (few) things I used to blog about was my atheism. Since I'm starting
2010-02-17 — This made me laugh today.. (🕑 1 min) Yes he was a traitor, but I don't mind taking orders from Lando Calrissian when